Praxis 1 essay

In parallel, students are also taught SAS and Python as alternatives to R for the implementation of key concepts from statistics and data mining. Enhancing the technology competence are courses in RDBMS, SQL, Hadoop, NOSQL, Spark and Visualisation. Hadoop is taught is using the Hortonworks Data Platform and by using the Elastic Map Reduce platform available on Amazon Web Services. All these technology courses are mostly lab oriented with minimal theory where students are expected to actually write and execute programs on the designated platform.